What are your hot takes about making conlangs?

I'll start: Sometimes a good-looking defective orthography is better than a worse-looking completely unambiguous one

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u/WitherWasTaken — 1 month ago

r/KafkaFPS

Хм, посты в этом сообществе вроде неплохие, я даже много времени уже вижу и захожу сюда, но я так сука ненавижу его из-за блядского названия, я проснулся, открываю свой телефон после ахуительной ночи снов (проспал 12ч, посмотрев дохуя снов) и первое, что я вижу это сообщение с реддита КАФКА ФПС, что это ваще значит нахуй? у меня это название ассоциируеися с напитком из накипи чайника и кофейной гущи, залить все это водой из под водяного охлаждения сервера, иначе для каких пиздюлей тут еще и слово фпс есть? В общем пусть этот саб нахуй пойдет, нет у меня настроения по утрам такую хуйню читать

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u/WitherWasTaken — 2 months ago

If Russian evolves in such a way that the lower sentence in this image becomes grammatically correct, then it will have classifiers.

Translation:

"People who say "in the month of March", "in the month of August": How do you like the furniture of couch? And what do you think of the tableware of plate?"

u/WitherWasTaken — 2 months ago

Ultraconservative Russian orthography based on Proto-Slavic (also somewhat morphophonetic)

Alphabet for inherited Proto-Slavic words:

Vowels: (regular vowel, /j/ + vowel, PS vowel, RU equivalent sound)

о, о̤ /o/ [o]

е, е̤ /e/ [e, ɛ]

е̰, е̰̤ /strong ь/ [e]

о̰, о̰̤ /strong ъ/ [o]

ь, ь̤ /weak ь/ [ʲ~Ø]

ъ, ъ̤ /weak ъ/ [Ø]

а, а̤ /a/ [a]

ѣ, ѣ̤ /ě/ [e]

и, и̤ /i/ [i]

ы, ы̤ /y/ [ɨ]

ъі /y/ (after ш, ж, ц) [ɨ]

ьі /y/ (after velar consonants) [i]

у, у̤ /u/ [u]

у̃, у̤̃ /ǫ/ [u]

я̃, я̤̃ /ę/ [ʲa]

-л /-l/ [-l]

-р /-r/ [-r]

-л̰ /-l/ [-l(o/e)]

-р̰ /-r/ [-r(o/e)]

Consonants:

м /m/ [m]

н /n/ [n]

н̤ /ň/ [nʲ]

п /p/ [p]

б /b/ [b]

т /t/ [t]

д /d/ [d]

т̤ /ť/ [t͡ɕ, ɕː]

д̤ /ď/ [ʐd?]

к /k/ [k]

г /g/ [ɡ]

ц /c/ [t͡s]

ч /č/ [t͡ɕ]

с /s/ [s]

з /z/ [z]

ш /š/ [ʂ]

ж /ž/ [ʐ]

с̤ /ś/ [sʲ, x]

х /x/ [x]

р /r/ [r]

р̤ /ř/ [rʲ]

л /l/ [ɫ]

л̤ /ľ/ [lʲ]

в /v/ [v]

Proto-Slavic consonants that disappeared are marked as С̥с̥.

Loanwords from languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet are written the same as in the original language.

Stress marks:

In nouns and verbs, the stress is marked with different signs based on Andrey Zaliznyak's stress patterns classification:

Nouns:

a - Ѓѓ

b - Г̀г̀

bʹ - Г̄̀г̄̀

c - Г̋г̋

d - Г̏г̏

dʹ - Г̄̏г̄̏

e - Г̌г̌

f - Г̂г̂

fʹ - Г̄̌г̄̌

fʺ - Г̄̂г̄̂

Verbs:

a - Г̊г̊

b - Г̍г̍

c - Г̄̍г̄̍

For any other words, Г̄г̄ is used to mark stress. (where Гг is the vowel)

Example:

Вьс̤е̄ л̤у́дье̤ ражда̊ѭтъся̃ свобо̄дьныи̤ми и ра̄вьнами въ свое̤̄мь досто́ь̤ньствѣ и права̋хъ. Онӣ надѣл̤ены̄ ра́зоумомъ и съ́вѣстьѭ и до̰лжьны̄ посту̃па̊ти въ отъноше́не̰и̤ дрӳгъ дрӳга въ ду́с̤ѣ бра́тр̥ьства.

(Original Russian orthography:)

Все люди рождаются свободными и равными в своём достоинстве и правах. Они наделены разумом и совестью и должны поступать в отношении друг друга в духе братства.

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u/WitherWasTaken — 3 months ago

ENOUGH! Who do they think they are? Our Lenin gave them a country, and they spit in our face! Don't they know we can nuke Kiev?!

UKRAINIANS.

They only think about their right bank of the Dnieper, they're NAZIS! They won't worship Bandera, they won't bomb Donetsk children, WE WON'T LET THEM!

We're better. We're stronger! We're the descendants of the Kievan Rus!

We... are... Z!!!

u/WitherWasTaken — 4 months ago

Map of the Eurostans in the United States of Europe

Basically another reverse colonization scenario (where Europe was colonized by Native Americans) except that this time it's an apartheid state, and the government created de-jure autonomous European states, basically South African Bantustans but with Europeans, so they're called... Eurostans? (Not really high effort so i'm not posting it on r/imaginarymaps or anywhere else)

u/WitherWasTaken — 4 months ago
▲ 82 r/2easterneuropean4u+1 crossposts

In response to every single person who has accused me of being a russian bot in the last 4 years:

Glory to Kaliningrad!

u/WitherWasTaken — 4 months ago

Haven't been to this gem of a sub in a while. Anyway, since it's pride month, here's my pride flag:

Hail Kaliningrad! Смерть врагам Кёнигсберга!

u/WitherWasTaken — 5 months ago

Inspired by 2 posts i've seen on this sub: creating new English loanwords by butchering Russian words so that they look like English ones

This is probably wrong (in the way that they wouldn't be written or pronounced if they were adapted in this way) but still...

u/WitherWasTaken — 5 months ago